38 Movie Quotes about Writers (Sound Clips) - page 3

Last updated on: July 6, 2025

Memorable quotes about writers, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Well, I'm not what you might call a public figure. -Oh, you're not? I mean, you write all these books, and you give all those talks, and everything just so everybody will leave you alone?

Quote from Shadowlands

22 You know why he stopped writing books. Because he masturbates.

Quote from Field of Dreams (1989)

23 Jesus H. Christ. You're not a writer, you're a killer.

Lee Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket

24 But I'm over all of that. I'm painting and stuff. Writing. I want to be a writer. Or maybe a painter, I don't know, maybe both. I'll write a book and draw the pictures. Then maybe people will understand me. I don't know, change things.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Donnie Darko in Donnie Darko

25 No, I'm a writer, I know dialogue... and that's particularly harsh.

Billy Crystal as Harry Burns in When Harry Met Sally...

26 I don't know, Coach. You know, uh, I been doing so good in English classes, you know... I figured I'd take next fall off and become a writer.

Quote from Dazed and Confused (1993)

27 Bon voyage, man. Don't forget to write! Eh-eh-eh-eh-eh?

Daws Butler in The Tex Avery Show

28 He's a writer. -Movies? -Books. My wife reads herself to sleep with 'em. -Oh. One of those writers. -Yeah.

Carole Lombard as Cherry Chester in The Moon's Our Home (1941)

29 That sounds like a cheap novelette. -I write cheap novelettes.

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins in The Third Man (1949)

30 No. I don't know. I'm just a hack writer who drinks too much and falls in love with girls... You. -Me? -Don't be such a fool. Of course.